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Science 23 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5508, pp. 1493 - 1495
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5508.1493
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FICTION:
An Internet Tea Party

A review by Julio Licinio

The Diagnosis
Alan Lightman
Pantheon, New York, 2000. 381 pp. $25, C$36. ISBN 0-679-43615-4. Bloomsbury, London, £16.99. ISBN 0-7475-4932-X.

A professor of humanities at MIT, Lightman has created a fascinating novel from a mysterious neurological disease, the hyperreality of the internet, and the story of Socrates' death.
The author is in the Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Gonda Center 3357A, 695 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1761, USA. E-mail: licinio{at}ucla.edu

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